Mils Muliaina

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Mils Muliaina
Personal information
Full name	Junior Malili Muliaina
Date of birth	July 31, 1980 (1980-07-31) (age 29)
Place of birth	Salesi, Western Samoa
Height	1.84 m (6 ft +1⁄2 in)
Weight	92 kg (200 lb)
Nickname	Mils
School	Kelston Boys' High
Occupation(s)	Professional Rugby Player
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position	Fullback, Centre, Wing
New Zealand No.	1033
Provincial/State sides		Caps	(points)
2006-present 1999-2005	Waikato Auckland	5 42	(5) (65)
Super Rugby
2006-present 2001-2005	Chiefs Blues	38 49	(45) (82)
National team(s)
2003-present	New Zealand	82	(125)
7's National teams		Tournaments
1999-2002	New Zealand	11

Medal record
Competitor for  New Zealand
Men's Rugby
Commonwealth Games
Gold	2002 Manchester	Rugby 7's

Junior Malili Muliaina (born 31 July 1980), better known as Mils Muliaina, is an international rugby union player for the New Zealand All Blacks. He was born in Salesi, Western Samoa, but moved with his family to Invercargill at the age of 2.

Early career

Starring in Southland age group representative teams he first attended Cargill High School then Southland Boys' High School, where he proved proficient enough at rugby to be offered a scholarship to Kelston Boys' High School in Auckland, in 1998. Subsequently, Muliaina played for the NZ Secondary Schools XV, the team winning that year's world championship. He repeated this the following year with the world champion Under 19 side, and in 2000 and 2001 was part of the world champion Under 21 (NZ Colt) teams of those years.

Professional Career and the All Blacks

Muliaina joined the Auckland Blues Super 12 team in 2001 and was a part of the Super 12 title winning team for that franchise in 2003. Muliaina's test debut for the All Blacks was against England on June 14 2003 at the Westpac Stadium in Wellington. He was subsequently part of the All Black squad at the 2003 Rugby World Cup. In 2004, he was the only player to be selected for every test played by the All Blacks. Muliaina has also played in 11 tournaments for the sevens team, including winning a Commonwealth Games gold medal in 2002 in Manchester. Though he has expressed a preference for playing as an outside centre, Muliaina generally plays at fullback, a position in which he is now considered to be one of the best in the world. He now plays for Waikato in the Air New Zealand Cup and the Chiefs in the Super 14. Mils is now the first choice fullback for the All Blacks. On the 30th of May 2009 he was named All Blacks' captain for the 2009 Iveco Test Series after a knee injury sidelined regular skipper Richie McCaw.

External links

• Chiefs profile
• Mils Muliaina at AllBlacks.com